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00:00Magdalena, New Mexico, a hundred miles from Albuquerque, a region that is no stranger
00:20to unexplained sightings and the otherworldly. Southern New Mexico is a hotbed of alien conspiracy
00:27theory and there are so many bizarre elements to this story. Alien invaders, reptile queens,
00:33ninja swords, cannibalism. But there's nothing supernatural at the end of this mystery.
00:41It has all the indications of a cold-blooded murder, all except for one thing. Where's the body?
00:57Albuquerque, New Mexico, Friday, September 10th, 1999. 36-year-old Gurley Chu Hassenkoft hasn't shown
01:17up for work as a bank teller. Gurley had recently told her supervisor about some serious problems
01:23she'd been having with her estranged husband. So she calls Gurley's home and her cell phone but
01:28gets no answer. The supervisor's next call is to police. Investigators arrive at Gurley
01:36Hassenkoft's apartment. Right away, they realize that something's not quite right. There's no sign
01:42of Gurley in the apartment, but the investigators notice three bleach patches on the carpet.
01:48Then they spray the room down with luminol. And the carpet lights up with multiple traces of blood.
01:56And the investigators realize at this point, the apartment is likely a crime scene.
02:03At first, they took samples of the carpet around the bleach spots. But then they noticed a strange
02:08glittery sand present in the samples. It's not clear what it is or where it came from.
02:14So they pull out the entire carpet, which is what you do for closer examination. They also take a
02:22toothbrush and hairbrush. They use those to obtain a sample of Gurley's DNA to test it against the
02:28material found on the carpet. As detectives process the forensic evidence, 120 miles away,
02:36a New Mexico state highway worker makes a disturbing discovery.
02:45He notices a bundled up tarp. He opens it up and he notices what he initially believes are children's
02:52clothes. They were so small. He also finds a strip of duct tape wrapped in a figure eight and more
02:59duct tape with long black hair stuck to them. Everything was covered in blood.
03:05The highway worker calls police, who rushed to the scene.
03:09This was a full set of bloody clothes and what looked like restraints.
03:16Is the disturbing evidence found by the side of the road somehow tied to Gurley's disappearance?
03:22Gurley Chu Hassenkoft was a Malaysian immigrant. She had come to the U.S. on a vacation six years prior,
03:28where she ran into her future husband, Diazen Hassenkoft.
03:31Diazen Hassenkoft told Gurley that he was a doctor. He was clever and charming, and she quickly fell in
03:37love with him, or at least with the image he projected, and she immigrated to marry him.
03:42Things were pretty normal for the newlyweds at first, but at some point Gurley Hassenkoft found out
03:47that she was unable to have children. From that moment, the marriage quickly deteriorated, and
03:53Diazen became increasingly bizarre and even violent.
03:59Gurley also told her co-workers about one evening when she walked out and saw Diazen
04:04crouched by her car, tinkering with the bolts on her tires.
04:09What are you doing?
04:10But when she asked what he was doing, he became violent.
04:14She left him the very next day.
04:18For nine months, she lived in fear. She was very careful. She didn't tell anyone where she lived.
04:24She used a P.O. box. She took different routes to and from work.
04:28She started taking self-defense classes twice a week.
04:33Diazen tormented Gurley with threatening messages and openly bragged about his intention to kill her.
04:39When it was determined that she would be getting money in the divorce, around $60,000, it infuriated Diazen.
04:45He swore she'd never see a single penny.
04:48Just before the divorce is to become final, Gurley Hassenkoft suddenly disappears.
04:55Her estranged husband quickly becomes detective's main suspect.
05:01But investigators soon realize that Diazen Hassenkoft is not the man he claims to be.
05:07I will not be disappointed. Believe me.
05:10Diazen Hassenkoft's real name was Armand Chavez.
05:13Born in Texas, he graduated college in California and faked his transcripts to con his way into medical school.
05:19When his lies were discovered, he was expelled.
05:21So he changed his name to Diazen Hassenkoft and started passing himself off as a geneticist, doctor, CIA operative, and various other government positions.
05:31In short, he was a con man.
05:33Investigators pay a visit to Diazen Hassenkoft.
05:38When investigators go to the residence, they find the home completely empty.
05:43They speak with a neighbor who lived across the street, who told him that Hassenkoft had moved out the day before.
05:50This was nothing odd because Diazen had told his neighbors of his plan to move away.
05:54He just left really quickly.
05:56At approximately 7 p.m. the night before Gurley was reported missing, she and a friend witnessed a car speed up the street into Diazen's driveway.
06:05A man exited the vehicle.
06:06He was wearing green clothing and had his face and neck colored black.
06:10She clearly recognized the man as her neighbor, Diazen Hassenkoft.
06:15The more the investigators learn about Hassenkoft, the more likely it seems he's somehow involved in Gurley's disappearance.
06:26Diazen Hassenkoft didn't leave much behind for the authorities to look through.
06:29But in the paperwork they could find, a name kept coming up in his records.
06:34That name is Linda Henning.
06:36Investigators find Linda at her house, and she agrees to go with them to answer a few questions about Diazen Hassenkoft.
06:44Linda Henning told investigators that she was essentially a caregiver for Diazen, who was suffering from a rare form of cancer.
06:52She said she didn't know where he was, he hadn't told her where he was moving, anything.
06:57And seemed extremely evasive for someone with nothing to hide.
07:02Detectives ask her for a DNA sample, which she readily agrees to.
07:05And then they went about trying to verify her story.
07:09When detectives look deeper into Linda Henning's relationship with Diazen Hassenkoft, they're not prepared for what they find.
07:18Coming up, an investigation into the life of Linda Henning reveals a bizarre world of dangerous delusions and wild fantasy.
07:26And an evil puppet master pulling the strings.
07:28He convinced her that the Earth was about to be taken over by an evil race of reptilian aliens led by an evil queen.
07:36Let's see.
08:00They did track down his so-called caregiver, 46-year-old Linda Henning.
08:07Linda told investigators that she barely knew Diazin.
08:11But when they spoke to people who knew Linda, her friends and co-workers told a completely different story.
08:19Linda Henning was born in Hollywood, California and raised in a broken home.
08:25She moved to Albuquerque in the 80s to start her own clothing design company.
08:28By 1999, she was well-established and engaged to be married.
08:34Linda was beautiful, bright, creative and successful.
08:38But her appearance and success hid a highly suggestible personality and a truly bizarre set of world beliefs.
08:47Not only did she believe in extraterrestrial life, but that she herself had otherworldly powers of healing and intuition bestowed upon her by the cosmos.
08:55Linda seems to lead a fairly normal life until she meets 34-year-old Diazin Hassinkhoff.
09:06Linda was first referred to Diazin by a friend.
09:09He was described as a geneticist who was suffering from a rare form of lymphoma.
09:13Linda believed she had supernatural healing powers, so meeting a man with an incurable disease might have seemed like fate to someone who's also predisposed to believe in such a thing.
09:25She also shared his apparent interest in extraterrestrials, and both were very knowledgeable about the state's rich UFO conspiracy theory.
09:33Linda knew that Diazin was married to Gurley, but it didn't seem to dissuade her.
09:41Linda knew that Diazin was married to Gurley, but it didn't seem to dissuade her.
09:54Gurley found out about the affair and confronted Diazin about it, but this just resulted in more violence and not much else.
10:04It certainly didn't impede his relationship with Linda Henning, and she was completely under his spell.
10:12Investigators want to find out more about the enigmatic Linda and decide to reach out to her ex-fiancée.
10:18He told them that the last time they spoke, a few months after the split, he thought she had a chemical imbalance.
10:25She clearly wasn't showering, she wasn't changing her clothes.
10:30He decides to hire a private investigator to check Diazin Hassenkopf's bona fides.
10:37Diazin Hassenkopf, a.k.a. Armand Chavez, is revealed as a con man and a fraud.
10:44When he confronts her with the detective's information, she throws a fit.
10:49She tells him that Diazin wasn't a con man, he wasn't even from this planet.
10:53He had convinced Linda that he was a 2,000-year-old alien and that the Earth was about to be taken over by an evil race of reptilian beings who were already hidden among us.
11:03She rambled on about this alien invasion and how she would have a place in the new order.
11:07Investigators suspect Linda Henning of knowing more than she claims, but they can't prove anything.
11:16They can't even show at this point without a body that a crime has actually been committed.
11:22But all that changes when the results from the forensic tests are revealed.
11:26The medical examiner had completed the tests on the bloody tarp, the bloody clothes, the duct tape under the tarp, and the hair stuck to the tape.
11:36The DNA in each sample matched the DNA obtained from Gurley's hairbrush.
11:41There were two different blood samples on the carpet, and only one belonged to Gurley.
11:51The other belonged to Linda Henning.
11:56They also find cat hair on the carpet.
11:59Gurley had no cats.
12:00Neither did Diazin.
12:02But Henning had six of them.
12:06They obtained a warrant to search Linda Henning's home.
12:09What is this for?
12:11They took hair samples from each of the cats and compared them with the cat hair found in Gurley's apartment.
12:17The results are a positive match.
12:22Detectives bring Linda back in for questioning and apply more heat.
12:27Linda Henning maintains that she doesn't know where Diazin Hasenkoft is,
12:31and that she never even met his soon-to-be ex-wife, Gurley.
12:35But investigators found bank statements that showed that she had actually opened a bank account at the very same Bank of America branch that Gurley Chu Hasenkoft worked in.
12:48In the trunk, they found the same glittery sand particles that were on the clothing found on the highway and in Gurley's apartment.
13:06Based on forensic evidence, Linda Henning is arrested, but how does she fit into the case?
13:13Detectives believe one man has the answers.
13:17Diazin Hasenkoft.
13:18Psychopaths like Diazin are driven by their ego, by an inflated sense of self-importance.
13:24So it's not surprising that he didn't stay hidden for very long.
13:29Investigators got a call from Diazin's neighbor, the one who had seen him run into his house with his face painted black on the night of the alleged crime.
13:36Hasenkoft left a message on her answering machine, threatening to kill her if she went to the police with what she saw.
13:47Hasenkoft is tracked down to a residence in Charleston, South Carolina,
13:52and arrested on charges of making threatening calls to his ex-neighbor.
13:58They search the house he was renting and find a 9mm handgun and an address book belonging to Gurley.
14:04They also take a steam cleaner on the chance that it might offer some insight into the bleached carpet in Gurley's apartment.
14:13Diazin denied any involvement in his wife's disappearance, and he said he had no idea where she was.
14:20He told them that they would never be able to prove anything.
14:23They had enough evidence to charge him for making the threats to his neighbor, so at least he was kept in custody.
14:29And they could now obtain a DNA sample in the hopes that it matched the unidentified bloodstains on Gurley's clothing.
14:37And when they opened up the carpet steamer they found with Hasenkoft, they found traces of glittery sand.
14:44Three times in three places this same sand is found.
14:48So if they could find where it came from, they could potentially put the victim and both suspects in the same place together.
14:58So they head back to Linda Henning's house and do a more thorough search of the residence.
15:04In the garage they find a few crates of art supplies.
15:09And that's where they finally found the source of the glittery decorative sand.
15:13And that's not the only piece of incriminating evidence.
15:17While searching the garage they notice a ceiling panel askew.
15:22And hidden in the ceiling is a long sharp sword.
15:26A so-called ninja sword.
15:29At this point authorities have evidence to prove that both suspects have been in Gurley's apartment.
15:34And in contact with Gurley at the point of her presumed murder.
15:38Now remember, they weren't even supposed to know where she lived.
15:41Despite an increasing amount of forensic and circumstantial evidence,
15:46detectives still haven't found Gurley's body.
15:49But they may not need to.
15:52At the time there had been several cases in the U.S.
15:55where a conviction was obtained on circumstantial and forensic evidence alone without a body.
16:00But it had never happened in New Mexico.
16:02Linda Henning and Diazian Hassenkoft go to trial for the murder of Gurley Hassenkoft.
16:14But without a body, will they be able to prove the crime even occurred?
16:19New Mexico has never had a successful murder conviction where there wasn't a body recovered.
16:25So prosecutors knew they'd have an uphill battle ahead of them.
16:28But in a move that surprises everyone, Diazian Hassenkoft offers to plead guilty
16:34in exchange for the death penalty being taken off the table.
16:39No matter how strong the forensic and circumstantial evidence was,
16:43without a body, the prosecution couldn't be certain of a successful conviction.
16:48So they took the plea.
16:50Prosecutors turn their attention to Linda Henning.
16:53Without the body, the prosecution had to rely on forensic evidence.
16:57The blood stains on Gurley's carpet, the clothes, the tape, the sand, and the hair.
17:02Her attorney is outraged.
17:04The defense pleads innocence and ignorance.
17:07They claim Linda Henning wasn't aware of the Hassenkoft's marital problems
17:11before the investigators told her about them.
17:13And she had nothing to do with Gurley's disappearance.
17:17Most importantly, it wasn't even definitive that she was dead.
17:21There's no body.
17:23Undeterred, the prosecution lays out their case against Linda Henning.
17:28And their evidence showed what transpired on that fateful night.
17:32The month before the murder, Linda started banking at Gurley's bank.
17:36She befriended Gurley months in advance,
17:38so that when she suddenly showed up at her front door, she wouldn't feel threatened.
17:42She had already followed her back to her apartment to find out where she was living.
17:46Linda Henning somehow talked her way into the house,
17:49likely because of her previous efforts to befriend Gurley.
17:52And she makes sure the door is unlocked so her accomplice could rush in after them.
17:58Linda tries to restrain Gurley, who had been training in self-defense for months.
18:04Linda's punched in the face.
18:05Gurley is punched in the face, accounting for the mixed blood on the carpet.
18:08Gurley is eventually overpowered.
18:13They wrap duct tape around her mouth and hands and roll her up in the tarp, leaving trace evidence everywhere.
18:20It's possible that at some point, it became apparent that some cleanup was required,
18:26so Diazen makes a quick stop at his home for his carpet cleaner.
18:30Eventually, Gurley is wrapped in the tarp, stuffed in the back of Linda's car, and driven out to the town of Magdalena.
18:40No one knows exactly what happened to Gurley after that point, or how she died.
18:46There were indications of possible torture on the tarp, and there were even stories of even worse possibilities.
18:52And what was Linda's motive, according to the prosecutors?
18:58The jury heard from Linda's friends who talked about her bizarre views about aliens,
19:02which were confirmed and then perverted by Diazen Hassenkopf into something dangerous.
19:08He had convinced her that she was an alien queen who had been sent to Earth to kill Gurley Hassenkopf,
19:16who was a rival alien queen.
19:19She was convinced that the fate of the world was in her hands.
19:23The jury doesn't buy Linda's outlandish story.
19:27On October 25th, Linda Henning is found guilty of first-degree felony murder,
19:32kidnapping, and a number of other charges related to the crime.
19:36While in prison awaiting her trial, Henning allegedly told two inmates and two nurse practitioners
19:42that the reason Gurley's body would never be found was that because much of it had been eaten.
19:50As part of their alien queen ritual, Linda Henning and Diazen Hassenkopf may have drank some of Chew's blood
19:58and consumed flesh during a ritual.
20:02Henning is sentenced to a minimum of 73 years.
20:07She, too, was spared the death penalty.
20:11Gurley Chu knew her murderers.
20:14One was a wolf in sheep's clothing,
20:16and the other one was a man she desperately tried to escape from.
20:21Linda Henning and Diazen Hassenkopf were both treated with more mercy than they gave to their victim.
20:27And when they both die in prison, their families will know where to find their bodies.
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